Density and variability of dinucleotide microsatellites in the parthenogenetic polyploid snail Melanoides tuberculata

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1233-1236

  Samadi, S ^a,b   Artiguebielle, E ^b   Estoup, A ^c   Pointier, J P ^d   Silvain, J F ^e   Heller, J ^f   Cariou, M L ^b   Jarne, P ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Freshwater snail; Microsatellites; Parthenogenesis; Polymorphism; Polyploidy

Indexed keywords

CLONE; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; POLYPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; ISRAEL; MALE; MARTINIQUE; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYPLOIDY; SNAILS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA;

EID: 0032170979     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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